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The day after the premiere, June 13, the word-of-mouth ban on James Bond's Ghost Party lifted straight away.

It was unsurprisingly the focus of media buzz.

The film's overall media score not only reached a high of 8.6 points, "Hollywood Reporter" also praised the film is the best James Bond film in the last 10 years. The word of mouth was recognized with a wide range of changes such as the new James Bond character, Pierce Brosnan, as well as a female Mrs. M and a young Dr. Q. The film was also widely recognized.

Deliberately driven by the Westeros system, the discussion of the film on internet platforms became a hotspot on social networking sites of various portals, especially the Charlie's Angels trio that appeared as eggs and the secret agent cinematic universe that was immediately implicated.

In Hollywood's commercial movies, word-of-mouth is not even necessarily the decisive factor for box office, but the popularity of the movie is often more important. Once the movie arouses a national level of enthusiasm, even if the word-of-mouth of the movie is far from satisfactory, under the guidance of the public psychology, many people will involuntarily buy tickets to enter the theater.

Now, not only does 007's Ghostbusters have a great reputation, but the focus of this movie is even wider, and its commercial prospects are almost imaginable.

It's now Friday, June 14.

With much anticipation, SPECTRE opened to 3,346 screens in North America.

In an effort to avoid the sharpness of SPECTRE 007, all other openings this week, except for this super secret agent blockbuster, have been under 1,000 screens, which is not worth mentioning.

Along with the heavy opening of SPECTRE 007, there was also this past box office week.

The two new films released that week, "Heart of the Dragon" and "Overage Interloper", were not too heavy.

One of them, "Dragonheart" is produced by Warner Bros. and cost $57 million to produce, reaching the level of a bombshell, but although it is considered a big-budget movie, just look at Warner Bros. putting this movie between "Mission Impossible 2" and "007's Ghostbusters", it is enough to imagine that the producer obviously does not have much confidence in this movie.

And so it is.

This fantasy film set in 10th century England about a living half of the heart of the dragon and became brutal king was overthrown and killed, the original project before the project has been in Hollywood for a long time, Simon also read the script, Warner Bros. also once wanted Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford in the role, but unfortunately the two super-first line curiosity have said no, and finally fell on Dennis Quaid.

The film opened to a barely passable 6.3 mixed media reputation score.

Another "overage interloper", mainly ideal for Simon in order to foster a new generation of Hollywood comedy stars, starring Adam Sandra, the production cost of only $10 million, compared to the previous two size dark horse "Romeo and Juliet" and "Black Mask", "overage interloper" is undoubtedly a lot more mediocre, 6.5 points, also just break through the passing line.

So, for a box office week from June 7 to June 13, the box office heavyweights are still focused on a few older films.

The first place on the list was no surprise.

The following week after its release, with no strong rivals emerging, Mission Impossible 2 maintained a very good 35 percent one-week box office drop to collect another $57.11 million. In two weeks, Danielle and Paramount's co-production of the secret agent spy blockbuster has reached a cumulative total of $133.26 million at the box office, making it directly Paramount's best box office success in the last year.

The second place goes to Warner Bros.' "Dragonheart".

In its first week of release, "Dragonheart" opened on 2,130 screens and took in $16.83 million in its first week.

With only $16.83 million in its first week, and facing a close second to "James Bond's Spooky Party," "Dragonheart" is neither the subject of "Romeo and Juliet,

With the film costing $57 million just to make and $30 million in local receipts, a loss was inevitable.

The third place is "The Mummy".

The fourth week of the release of "The Mummy", the past week with 39% of the box office decline continued to enter $ 12.01 million, a single-week volume is close to the 10 million threshold, the film's local box office total of $ 137.17 million, the local box office is expected to be comparable to the initial forecast, about $ 150 million.

Fourth place goes to "Romeo and Juliet.

This summer's small and big love dark horse in its fifth week of release, still with the area of 21% drop in the single-week box office to stay above $ 10 million, into the $ 10.56 million, the film's cumulative box office is also close to the billion box office club threshold, to $ 99.67 million.

In fifth place was "Overage Interlude.

After all, it is a new film, this Adam Sandra starring comedy seven-day box office in the first week of $ 8.2 million, with the film's $ 10 million production costs and $ 5 million of promotional calculations, the local box office is expected to be about 20 million, not good, not bad, through the follow-up distribution will soon be able to achieve profit.

Outside of the top five, films such as The Secret Order of Evaporation and Ace Ventura have been thoroughly unremarkable.

Of course, the other small dark horse "Black Mask" is the exception.

The action film from across the ocean in its third week of release, the following week after the sharp waist drop narrowed to 22%, another $3.97 million, the film's cumulative box office has reached $ 19.38 million.5 million in total cost, soon to exceed $ 20 million at the box office, enough to make many studios envious.

Los Angeles.

The restaurant looked bustling as usual on an early Saturday morning at the Point Dume estate.

But only four of the youngsters dining together today, Seattle, Nick Jr, Greenwich and Snow, are left.

Veronica had come over to North America last week and had brought Melbourne back to Australia on her way out.

According to Janet, it was the old man's request, Melbourne was expected to stay in Australia for the entire summer, and the old man intended to personally look after and educate his precious grandson, adding that this was the same rule for little Nick when he was older.

As for the reason.

The old man said outright that Simon was surrounded by too many women, and wondered where he had read some statement that children who grew up around women tended to become feminine in character.

How is that tolerable?!

Well.

To be fair, it's also the old man's dissatisfaction with the state of Simon's life.

Simon was fine with that.

In fact, Simon also hopes that his eldest son's character can be like his grandfather, tough and tough, just like the first generation of old cowboys who crossed the ocean to explore the Australian continent.

In fact, the entire core members of the Johnston family's personality is basically the same. Even if he hadn't grown up in the corresponding environment, Simon clearly possessed the corresponding traits in his bones.

In contrast, if Melbourne had been raised in the Dume Point Manor, it was a little hard to tell what his future personality would be.

"Anthony was in Brazil again last week, and Vale's privatisation project, and while we've had some pressure through Washington, the Brazilian side is still more inclined to work with the Japanese, who have been operating in Latin America for much longer," said Janet, speaking of Australia, of Johnston Holdings' placement in the iron ore industry. "But the Brazilians haven't turned us down, and Johnston Holdings will probably get about 10% of the shares, as well as some say in the matter."

Inside the restaurant, Simon smiled at Janet's comment and looked across the room at Jennifer, who was looking after two of the smallest children left and right, "What do you think?"

The female assistant gently shook her head and said, "I don't understand, but I think it's not realistic for Johnston Holdings to want to control the global iron ore industry, it's good to get 10% of the shares and a small amount of voice, that's enough to build an alliance. Also, the main consolidation target for Johnston Holdings, I think, should be within Australia."

Janet said: "This is known at home, but after the annexation of Billiton, because of regulatory reasons, we want to go further in the country is not easy, and now that Johnston Holdings is also a member of the Westeros system, governments have become wary of us."

So saying, Janet looked at Simon again.

The memory of the merger of BHP and BHP Billiton was about 2001, and for a variety of reasons.

Now, in the face of a separate economy like the Westeros system, which had transcended the plutocratic level, it would be impossible to say that the Western countries were not wary of this.

At the end of the day, it's a failure of control.

After all, mature capitalist countries are naturally hostile to the oligarchy, or else Morgan and Rockefeller would not have been dismantled. Therefore, instead of continuing to merge in mainstream Western countries, focusing on third world countries, such as Latin America, or Eastern Europe, is also another way out.

It just wouldn't be right for Johnston Holdings either," Simon told Janet.

Thinking this way, Simon said to Janet, "If we can't win control, I don't really recommend continuing this investment, and by the way, if Johnston Holdings controls too large a share of iron ore, big enough to manipulate the price of iron ore, it could instead be subject to a strict antitrust investigation."

Janet said, "You're saying that we should wait for other companies, like Hollywood's Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group?"

Simon smiled and nodded, "Yeah."

Janet thought about it, and then said, "But we don't control a huge share now, not even a quarter of it."

"But it's overtaking Vale, Rio Tinto, BHP and others, isn't it?"

Janet shrugged.

Simon, still with a smile on his face, said, "Tell you what, we'll go on vacation to Australia together in a while, and I'll have a serious talk with Ray and the others then."

Hearing about the vacation, Janet paused to stop focusing on the family business and her eyes lit up, "From when, exactly?"

"In August, we'll leave as soon as Verizon Telecom goes public."

"That's what you said, no going back on it."

"Of course not."

"Then I'll start making arrangements recently."

Thus finalizing the plan, breakfast continued, and Simon still couldn't stop thinking about what had just happened.

Vale, Brazil's number one iron ore company and once one of the world's top three iron ore suppliers, Simon certainly wanted Johnston Holdings to eat it if possible. Relying on the Westeros system, the Johnston family had also expanded quite rapidly in recent years.

However, many things can never be too late.

If one day in the future, Johnston Holdings owned a significant stake in every major mainstream iron ore supply company in the world, the target would be too obvious if there were signs of manipulation of international iron ore prices.

It would also be easier to find trouble.

What's more, the Japanese have been operating all over the world for a long time in order to solve their own resource concerns, and Vale, once seemingly Brazil's number one iron ore company, is actually controlled by the Japanese zaibatsu behind the scenes. Even if the current trend of mainstream Western public opinion is to suppress Japan, it is not easy to fight for this piece of fat meat that the other side has been operating for a long time from the Japanese.

If you only get a small number of shares, you might as well not.

Besides, Simon would prefer Johnston Holdings to focus mainly on China and, perhaps, further diversify around its more familiar steel industry.

It just so happens that next year is also an opportunity.

In 1997, the Asian financial crisis further drove the entire world economy into a trough, which will also cause a new reshuffle of the global steel industry chain.

All in all, what was once a three-legged stool is actually just fine.

No one could take all the benefits.

Diversification is also more resilient to potential risks than expansion in separate areas.

Like Hollywood, it's hard for one big studio to thrive if it's only in the movie business, but only if it's a big, diversified cluster around the entire media and entertainment industry, like Daenerys Entertainment at this point, that can stand above the rest.

Simon had never thought of Johnston Holdings getting involved in the unfamiliar fields of electronics and video, but only in the extension of the steel industry, such as transportation and smelting, which could also form a huge industry cluster if it was carefully cultivated, and just like Daenerys Entertainment, as long as it controlled enough resources, other iron ore suppliers, even if they didn't control it, would still have to be subservient to Johnston Holdings.

After breakfast, there was no rest at home this Saturday.

A lot of work was scheduled for today.

Simon arrived at the Daenerys Studios at nine o'clock, and the first thing he saw was the first day's box office figures for "007's Ghost Party".

On the first day of the opening, including the morning and evening shows, the box office revenue of 007's Ghost Party reached $18.63 million, according to this past performance, this is also considered to be the opening of the secret agent movie universe, the box office in the first weekend will probably be between $50 million to $60 million, the first week and seven days is expected to be $80 million to $90 million.

It's even better than Mission Impossible 2.

After all, the bottom line is placed here.

And, on top of the $75 million production cost, the publicity investment for 007's Ghost Party is up to $50 million, to open things up in one fell swoop.

Now, with $80 to $90 million in its first week, the film's North American gross is expected to hit $300 million, and 007 has always been a big overseas player, with global receipts likely to be around $700 to $800 million.

The door is open.

With this movie's performance, as long as the "Charlie's Angels" results at the end of the year can cross into the 100 million box office club, the whole secret agent movie universe plan can be successfully executed.